Part 1:
The four conditions of happiness are simple: clear eyes, a quiet mind,
a sense of beauty, and an open heart. Unhappiness is the dark effect of
refusing to cultivate these essential elements for having imagined, by
a false light, a contentment that does not exist.

Part 2:
The real limitation in life is a creation of the illusion that outside
of us exists something that — if we could only gain it — would have
the effect of making of us more than we already possess the potential
to be.

Part 3:
We can only begin to change the world around us by becoming a conscious part of all that is changing.

– Guy Finley

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The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not our faults, but our wounds…

– Marianne Williamson

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Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

– (Christopher Robin to Pooh) A.A. Milne

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world
tells that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is only One, and that One is Spirit. It is present everywhere,
all at once, its perfection fully formed in all of its creation. It has
the power to create anything I can imagine, and this power to create
works naturally and effortlessly by means of spiritual laws. These laws
are impersonal, immutable, unchangeable, and utterly reliable. This One
is also the infinite intelligence of Life, knowing how to accomplish
whatever I give it to do, and to do it with panache.

I was not created to suffer, to learn lessons, to improve myself, or to
somehow ‘get better’. I was created by the King of the Universe to
create a life that contains…whatever I choose. Because the laws of
the Universe operate upon what I truly believe, if I believe that I
must suffer to experience a life of spiritual connection, I receive
suffering in abundance. If I believe that I’m here to learn something I
didn’t pick up the first time around, life brings me many learning
opportunities until I learn by choice or by force. In precisely the
same manner, if I believe that I am here to give and receive love
without limit, abundance without end, and joy without boundaries, that
is what I receive.

I pay close attention to the subtleties of my mind and my heart. I
notice when I’m believing in less than a perfect universe operating
perfectly. I see clearly each instance in which I act upon the belief
that Life is finite, lacking intelligence, or capricious…AND CHANGE
MY MIND. I do this by using my innate and inherent spiritual power to
guide my beliefs to the Truth. Anything in me that is out of alignment
with the greater _expression of Truth for me is now obliterated by
means of this treatment. I’m no longer willing to live life halfway. I
trust in the infinite promise of Spirit, that I may have life and have
it more abundantly. I trust in the impersonal laws of Spirit, knowing
that they work for me as well as anyone, and that they work perfectly,
every time. I place my faith in the creator of all life, which
obviously includes me, knowing that this creator loves me without
limit, and is always guiding me to my greater experience.

I live this day knowing that I’m here to love, to give, and to celebrate! And I do. And so it is.
 
– The GoodStart List

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The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the
possessing entity – the thinker.  Knowing this enables you to
observe the entity.  The moment you start watching the thinker, a
higher level of consciousness becomes activated.

You then being to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence
beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that
intelligence.  You also realize that all the things that truly
matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond
the mind.

You begin to awaken.

– Eckhart Tolle